harley: It is my husbands computer. We have cable and our computers are networked. The cable from mine runs directly to his. It freezes up in any program. If it was the connection, wouldn't mine freeze too? I never have any problems with my puter. I gave his a good cleaning a while ago and it is still freezing up. Could it have something to do with the XP home edition? Could the disk have been corrupted somehow? I am thinking about installing my XP professional on his and see if that will work. The only other alternative I can think of is to change the HD. At one time he had over 100 virus infected files. The only way I could get rid of them all was to completely erase the HD. Could those viruses have damaged the HD?